Any Anti Aging Skin Care Comes With A Warning Label! But Do We See It?

by Lesley Craine BA IFL

Is Ignorance bliss? Our daily anti aging skin care is lined up - bottles, tubes, jars. Our skin is smooth and the wrinkles have gone. We do not need to know anything else.
So many times you hear people say what I don't know can't hurt me. But today in our modern world of chemical toxicity I am afraid the answer to that question is a resounding NO. You couldn't be further from the truth.

Just look at the list of ingredients below in this antiaging skin cream:

List of Chemicals Aqua, Cyclopentasiloxane, Squalane, glycerine, arachidyl, alcohol, behnyl alcohol, arachidyl glucoside, cetearyl alcohol, cetearyl glucoside, aluminium starch octenyl succinate, butyrospermum parkii, c13-14 isoparrafin, laureth-7, polyacrylamide, retinyl palmitate, tricapryln, BHT, polymethal methacrylate, dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline, avena sativa kernel oil, petrolateum, tocopheryl acetate ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, disodium edta sodium hydroxide, parfum, 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1, 3-diol, dichlorobenzyl alcohol.

How would you like to be served that up on your plate for tonights dinner. No, seriously all of that is in just one small jar. A very small part of your anti aging skin care.

You might not be eating the stuff but your skin certainly is and then its getting into your blood stream.

Now answer truthfully the following 3 questions:

Do you know how each one of the ingredients benefits you? Do you know the definition of each compound? Do you know how each ingredient was made?

The answer is no. To be honest neither do you have any idea of exactly how many other chemicals were used but not labelled.

The other question is. Do you have any reservations about using such chemicals?

Probably not. But do you know that many of the chemicals used in personal care products have been found, by extensive studies, to perform a variety of nasty jobs - they can suffocate the skin, cause irritations, rashes, lung disorders, brain and immune system damage.

The list goes on but all I want to do is to make you aware that you really need to be mindful when choosing your anti aging skin care products. But it isn't only antiaging skin cream, it is everything that you buy.

Believe it or not even your fruit and vegetables (unless organic) have been coated with so many different pesticides.

The household cleaners, car cleaners, air fresheners. The list could go on and on.

What is it that you are always told? read the label before you buy. Well that's fine, but what if you don't understand the label (as with most of us) then reading or not reading the label will not make any difference.

So then, what do you do? You need to ask the cosmetic manufacturers what exactly is in their antiaging skin cream and any reputable dealer will tell you exactly what is in it.

Most cosmetic companies (as with any company) want your repeat business. But yes there are those who just want to make a quick buck off you. So beware.

Another alarming factor with any kind of cosmetic product is that manufacturers (of be it antiaging skin cream or anything else) are not obligated to make any claims to the FDA of what ingredients (apart from those that are banned) they have used in their products.

Literally then cosmetic manufacturers could use anything and not even put all the ingredients on the label. It's frightening isn't it?

But you need to find a reputable, honest company with whom you trust and have confidence in.

Some companies will (if they believe in their product wholeheartedly) even give you a 100% risk free trial which means you are able to try their product and if you don't like it return it to them and get your money back.

Remember your skin is the largest organ in your body and if you don't treat it well it won't treat you well either. It is better to take a bit more time over choosing your anti aging skin care than being sorry later on.

About the Author
Lesley and Karen are experts when it comes to natural alternative antiaging skin cream. So before you go out and by your next anti aging skin care go and check out their best recommendations.